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E-discovery has become challenging and expensive in this era of big data. KPMG LLP, the audit, tax and advisory firm, today announced upgrades to its discovery management technology, Discovery Radar®, which helps corporate law departments and law firms cut e-discovery costs and simplify management of large, complex litigation.

The New York State Wireless Association has elected White Plains attorney Christopher B. Fisher as its new president. Mr. Fisher succeeds NYSWA founding member Douglas W. Dimitroff as president. Mr. Dimitroff, who continues to serve on the association’s board of directors, is a partner with Phillips Lytle LLP and leader of the firm...

Attorneys with the law firm of Thompson & Knight LLP represented TEAK Midstream, L.L.C. (“TEAK”), a privately owned midstream natural gas company based in Dallas, in the execution of a $1 billion definitive agreement with Atlas Pipeline Partners, L.P. (“Atlas”). The transaction, announced on April 16, 2013, is awaiting...

Lawyers Alliance for New York is pleased to announce the release of the new edition of its signature publication, Advising Nonprofits. Now in its fifth edition, this 531-page publication provides the most comprehensive road map available for identifying legal issues encountered by New York nonprofit staff, board members and the attorneys who...

Marcum LLP has announced a merger with Cornerstone Accounting Group, an accounting and assurance firm, focused on the real estate industry, with headquarters in NYC. The merger is effective immediately. The entire Cornerstone team consisting of five partners and 75 staff will join Marcum. Cornerstone's managing partner Daniel Vitulli will...

Robin M. Feiner, a former equity capital markets banker at UBS Investment Bank and Citigroup Global Markets Inc., has joined Proskauer’s Capital Markets Group in New York. She brings more than 17 years of experience to her new role, having planned and executed hundreds of IPOs, follow-ons, block trades and other equity financings across a...

The National Law Journal has recognized Wiley Rein Chairman Richard E. Wiley as one of “The 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America,” including him in a preeminent group of practitioners. Mr. Wiley is the only communications regulatory attorney named to this prestigious list of “law’s power elite.”

Fred W. Alvarez is joining Jones Day as a partner in the Silicon Valley office, where he will be a member of Jones Day's Labor & Employment Practice. Mr. Alvarez is joining from the Palo Alto office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he was a partner and the leader of the firm's Employment Law Litigation Practice.

King & Spalding was chosen by Managing Intellectual Property as this year’s “United States Copyright/Patent Milestone Case of the Year” for its successful defense of Google Inc. in the company’s highly publicized infringement battle with Oracle America Inc. The firm was recognized with the award at Managing Intellectual...

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has announced that it advised on the Equity Deal of the Year at the International Financial Law Review (IFLR) European Awards 2013. The firm also advised on the Private Equity Deal of the Year at the IFLR Asia Awards 2013 held in Hong Kong in February. IFLR’s awards are the only awards that recognize legal...

For the fifth year in a row, Gibbons P.C. is ranked the #1 lawyer-lobbying firm in New Jersey, according to the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission, which has just released its report on 2012 lobbying expenditures in the state, and as reported in the New Jersey Law Journal.

Clifford Chance has announced that Evan Cohen has been elected Americas regional managing partner (RMP) by a vote of his fellow partners in the region. Mr. Cohen, who has led the Americas Banking & Finance practice since 2005, will begin his four-year term as RMP on May 1 of this year. Current Americas RMP Craig Medwick will return to the...

Stradley Ronon partner Danielle Banks has been appointed vice chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Federal Courts Committee, which serves as an informal liaison between the Federal Courts covering the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and members of the bar. The committee’s work includes informing the members with regard to...

McCarter & English, LLP has announced that former Delaware Superior Court Judge Peggy L. Ableman has joined the firm’s Wilmington, Delaware office as special counsel in the Product Liability practice group, bringing with her nearly 30 years of experience as a state trial judge. At McCarter she will focus on using her years of judicial...

Thompson & Knight LLP has announced the establishment of the firm’s second California office with the addition of seven attorneys and other professional staff from San Francisco’s Ongaro Law Firm. Opened on March 1, the office is led by long-time San Francisco litigator David R. Ongaro and remains in its current Financial District...

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has announced that a deal it handled was named the Private Equity Deal of the Year at the International Financial Law Review (IFLR) Asia Awards 2013 held in Hong Kong on February 28.
IFLR’s awards are the only awards internationally that recognize legal innovation in international finance.

W. Todd Holleman has been appointed managing partner of King & Spalding’s Charlotte, NC, office. Mr. Holleman, a partner in the firm’s finance practice, has been resident in the firm’s Charlotte office since it opened in 2007. He represents financial institutions and funds, energy companies, private equity sponsors and...

Seven Jones Day attorneys are among Law360’s “Rising Stars” for 2013. The list features top attorneys under 40. This year, 112 lawyers made the list and Jones Day led all other firms in the survey, with the highest number of lawyers included.